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• On the post: New Filing Presents Evidence That John Steele Uploaded Videos To BitTorrent Himself

  

  BearGriz72 ( profile ), 03 Jun, 2013 @ 04:22pm

  Re: Wow....

  Agreed, but I don't think there is much more he could do than he already did.
  
  On the other hand, Ken White (AKA Popehat) said he was "incandescently angry" before, can you imagine him with this news? Nuclear detonation comes to mind...

• On the post: British Politicians: There's Child Porn On The Internet And Google Needs To Do Something About It

  

  BearGriz72 ( profile ), 03 Jun, 2013 @ 02:17pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: (AOL)

  "You are confused with America Online.
  They not only think they were the internet, they wanted you to think so too."

  FTFY

• On the post: Tech Press Falling For Intellectual Venture's New Spin

  

  BearGriz72 ( profile ), 30 May, 2013 @ 09:03pm

  Re: The horse with no BRAIN...

  I'm sorry, but your HEAD is an echo chamber. What is your point?
  
  -1 Please try harder...

• On the post: Prenda Continues Character Assassination Of Alan Cooper

  

  BearGriz72 ( profile ), 28 May, 2013 @ 03:44pm

  Re: "Techdirtbagger Manual" FTFY

  So, Mr. Anonymous Coward, can you prove that you didn't rape and murder a young girl in 1990?
  
  NO?
  So you want us to take up your faith-based assertion?
  
  I see your logical fallacy & raise you a Phase II idiocy?
  Moron.

• On the post: Europe Continues To Allow Vegetable Patent Despite Being Told To Stop

  

  BearGriz72 ( profile ), 28 May, 2013 @ 12:58pm

  Re: "The patent on patenting"

  I think you will find that there are currently three different "Patents on Patenting"???℗≈√∞, one of which is held by a 'Intellectual Ventures' shell company.
  
  Prepare to be sued into oblivion!

• On the post: Kern County Coroner Declares David Silva's Death To Be 'Accidental,' Heart Disease-Related

  

  BearGriz72 ( profile ), 28 May, 2013 @ 10:09am

  Re: "Doctor Cushing"

  "The autopsy almost makes it sound as if David Silva might have passed away that night, with or without receiving special attention from Kern County deputies."

  I'll take "Statements of Opinion" for $200, Alex.
  
  Answer: Anonymous Coward (May 28th, 2013 @ 6:05am)
  Question: What is an AssHat?

• On the post: Kern County Coroner Declares David Silva's Death To Be 'Accidental,' Heart Disease-Related

  

  BearGriz72 ( profile ), 28 May, 2013 @ 09:55am

  Re: Re: Smoked pork

  Yum!

• On the post: So It's Come To This: Seven High School Students Arrested For Throwing… Water Balloons

  

  BearGriz72 ( profile ), 24 May, 2013 @ 02:38pm

  Re: "Weaponized Water"

  Oh NO! Weaponized Dihydrogen Monoxide (A.K.A. Hydroxyl Acid), my god these children were using Weapons of MASS HYDRATION!
  
  I invite everyone to learn about this dangerous omnipresent substance at:
  Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide! -and-
  Dihydrogen Monoxide Research Division - Dihydrogen Monoxide info

• On the post: Quack Professor Releases Dumbest Violent Video Game Theory Ever

  

  BearGriz72 ( profile ), 24 May, 2013 @ 12:17pm

  Epic Facepalm!

  "For those of you who aren't suffering face-palm-induced concussion syndrome"
  
  http://i377.photobucket.com/albums/oo213/Sick020/picard-facepalm.jpg
  http://cdn.iwastesomuchtime.com/October-18-2011-20-12-49-DoubleFacePalm.jpg
  http://picardfacepalm.com/

• On the post: Your Word Against Ours: How The FBI's 'No Electronic Recording' Policy Rigs The Game… And Destroys Its Credibility

  

  BearGriz72 ( profile ), 21 May, 2013 @ 03:35pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Recording

  Gots to love the Popehat...

  Shut Up, I Explained, Mostly Pointlessly
  May 1, 2013 By Ken White. (Tags: Law, Law Practice)
  "It's my best piece of advice ? and the advice most consistently ignored. If you're dealing with the government, and you are in any doubt, why won't you just shut up?"

• On the post: Police Follow Up Beating A 'Possibly Intoxicated' Man To Death By Seizing Witnesses' Cell Phones

  

  BearGriz72 ( profile ), 14 May, 2013 @ 03:04pm

  Re: "transfer it to the internet"

  I don't know about anybody else, but my phone does this automatically, as soon as I take a picture or video it is 'automagicly' uploaded to at least two locations (Google+ & Dropbox) almost immediately.
  
  Now if the police did seize my phone before it uploaded, even if they turned it off or shielded it from RF (e.g. a faraday bag), it would still auto-upload as soon as it got a good cell network signal (both of these apps have the option for uploading via Wi-Fi only, but I chose the upload over BOTH cellular and wifi options specifically for this reason).
  
  Now, you could say that if they have access to my phone then the police could crack my phone lock and then access my Google+ and Dropbox accounts and delete the "offending" image/video, and that is true, however Dropbox has a feature where you have to enter a pin code to access it (but it still uploads updates automatically), so they would have to crack that as well.
  
  The upside of this is it gives me time to access either of those services from another device and copy/share the file so that it can not be ultimately destroyed.
  
  See Also: THIS and This2

• On the post: Moral Panic Over Google Glass: White House Petition Asks To Ban Them To Prevent 'Indecent' Public Surveillance

  

  BearGriz72 ( profile ), 06 May, 2013 @ 12:45pm

  Re: Re: Re: "the technology is coming one way or the other"?

  ..."inability to register an account"...
  
  He can't any more, somebody else already registered OotB...

• On the post: Judge Wright Tells Team Prenda To Pay $80k, Refers Their Activity To State Bars, Feds & IRS

  

  BearGriz72 ( profile ), 06 May, 2013 @ 05:09pm

  OMG The funny! I can't stop laughing!!!

  "It was when the Court realized Plaintiffs engaged their cloak of shell companies and fraud that the Court went to
  battlestations."
  
  "As evidence materialized, it turned out that Gibbs was just a redshirt."
  
  "Third, though Plaintiffs boldly probe the outskirts of law, the only enterprise they resemble is RICO. The federal agency eleven decks up is familiar with their prime directive and will gladly refit them for their next voyage."
  
  Finally for the "insightful"...
  
  "Without better technology, prosecuting illegal BitTorrent activity requires substantial effort in order to make a case. It is simply not economically viable to properly prosecute the illegal download of a single copyrighted video."

• On the post: Moral Panic Over Google Glass: White House Petition Asks To Ban Them To Prevent 'Indecent' Public Surveillance

  

  BearGriz72 ( profile ), 06 May, 2013 @ 12:50pm

  We the People?

  Anyone else think that petitions.whitehouse.gov needs a "Report this Petition as STUPID!" button?

• On the post: Takedown (Non-DMCA) Filed Against YouTube Video Challenging Controversial Cancer Clinic

  

  BearGriz72 ( profile ), 20 Apr, 2013 @ 10:31am

  Re: Something about Mike being a pirate or something.

  Well we warned the "real" OotB that if he didn't register his handle then someone else would...
  He has no one but himself to blame.

• On the post: Megaupload Points Out That The DOJ Has Contradicted Itself Concerning Legality Of Serving Megaupload

  

  BearGriz72 ( profile ), 20 Apr, 2013 @ 10:10am

  Re: Re: SO no US address = immune from all prosecution?

  +1 for the Futurama reference!
  http://i.qkme.me/35p5ss.jpg

• On the post: Prenda Now In Trouble In Another Case In California

  

  BearGriz72 ( profile ), 20 Apr, 2013 @ 07:37am

  Re: Re: CCleaner CAN be a tool for securely deleting (wiping) files...

  But it is not set up that way by default, and takes some knowledge of the software & how to configure it to do that job.
  [Full Disclosure: I use Piriform's CCleaner on a regular basis, both in its default use as a tool to clean-up my HDD (& windows registry and temp files, etc.) as well as for it's ability to provide secure file deletion]
  
  See: http://www.howtogeek.com/113382/how-to-use-ccleaner-like-a-pro-9-tips-tricks/
  See Also: https://securityinabox.org/en/ccleaner_main
  Side Note: When CCleaner securely deletes files, it renames them with all Zs in the file name (for example, ZZZZZZZZ.ZZZ) for increased security.
  
  And direct from the horse's (Piriform) mouth...

  From: https://www.piriform.com/docs/ccleaner/using-ccleaner/wiping-free-disk-space
  "This means that, given the right software, someone could reconstruct all, or parts of files that you've deleted. For privacy and security reasons, you can set CCleaner to wipe the free areas of your hard disk so that deleted files can never be recovered."
  
  From: https://www.piriform.com/docs/ccleaner/ccleaner-settings/changing-ccleaner-settings
  "CCleaner has four methods of secure deletion: a Simple Overwrite (1 pass), DOD 5220.22-M (3 passes), NSA (7 passes), and Gutmann (35 passes). A 'pass' refers to how many times CCleaner writes over the spot on the hard drive. The more times CCleaner writes to that spot, the harder the file will be to recover by any means. The drawback is that it will take CCleaner longer to complete the job."

• On the post: Senator Wyden Takes A Stand Against Overbroad Tax On Internet Transactions

  

  BearGriz72 ( profile ), 20 Apr, 2013 @ 06:44am

  Re: "Because this was easier than just removing tax breaks giant corporations enjoy?"

  How about they fix the broken tax laws that allow major corporations to pay tax rates lower than people who make under the poverty line before demanding more people pony up cash for the coffers.

  THIS!

• On the post: Senator Wyden Takes A Stand Against Overbroad Tax On Internet Transactions

  

  BearGriz72 ( profile ), 20 Apr, 2013 @ 06:29am

  Re: Re: Unfair burden?

  Every time the subject of sales tax comes up, all I can think is thank god I live in a region that doesn't have sales tax.

  Oregon FTW! (Again, Again!)

• On the post: Senator Wyden Takes A Stand Against Overbroad Tax On Internet Transactions

  

  BearGriz72 ( profile ), 20 Apr, 2013 @ 06:10am

  Re: "Thank goodness one of our senators has a brain."

  Oregon FTW! (Again)

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